Monday, March 11, 2019

Batista Hypes RAW, Eight-Man Tag Team Match, Title Match And More Announced For SmackDown

- WWE has announced a big eight-man match for this week's WWE SmackDown from the Nutter Center in Dayton, OH.
It will be The Hardy Boys, Ricochet and Aleister Black vs. Sheamus, Cesaro, Rusev and Shinsuke Nakamura.

Cathy Kelley announced the match in the new backstage video below. She then announced that Shane McMahon will be on SmackDown to explain why he attacked The Miz at WWE Fastlane. R-Truth vs. WWE United States Champion Samoa Joe with the title on the line was also announced for this week's blue brand show.

- As noted, tonight's RAW from Pittsburgh will feature a face-off with Batista and Triple H to get the ball rolling on their WrestleMania 35 feud. Batista took to Twitter this afternoon and wrote the following to hype tonight's segment: